The Sleep of Death
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| Sleep of Death | |
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 "You Won't Believe Your Eyes" | |
| Directed by | Calvin Floyd |
| Written by | Calvin Floyd Yvonne Floyd based on a story by Sheridan Le Fanu |
| Produced by | Reidun Stenbeck [1] |
| Starring | Curd Jürgens Per Oscarsson Patrick Magee Marilù Tolo [2] |
| Music by | Ragnar Grippe |
| Distributed by | Dragon Co. Aspect Film[3] |
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Sleep of Death (a.k.a. The Inn of the Flying Dragon or The Sleep of Death) is a 1980 Swedish-Irish historical horror film written and directed by Calvin Floyd and starring Per Oscarsson, Curd Jürgens, Patrick Magee and Marilù Tolo.The film was shot in 1977. [4] It is based on the 1872 novella The Room in the Dragon Volant by Sheridan Le Fanu. The film's Swedish title is Ondskans Värdshus. It was released in Sweden in 1981.
Plot
[edit | edit source]In 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a young Englishman travels to France in pursuit of a woman, the Countess St. Alyre. Once there he meets some weird characters, including the Marquis D'Armanville, and he begins to experience otherworldly events as a series of murders occur.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Per Oscarsson ... Colonel Gaillard
- Patrick Magee ... Marquis
- Curd Jürgens ... Count St. Alyre
- Marilù Tolo ... Countess Elga
- Brendan Price ... Robert Terence
- Niall Toibin ... Sean
- Kay Maclaren ... Old Woman
- Barry Cassins ... The Count's Brother
- Christopher Casson ... Sir Philip Terence
- John Molloy ... Priest
- Ray McAnally ... Inspector Carmingac
- Archie O'Sullivan ... Chemist
- Bill Foley ... Colonel's Orderly
- Jacinta Martín ... First Maid
- Olwen Fouere ... Second Maid
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- The Sleep of Death at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
